Saudi-backed airstrike on crowded market kills at least 25 in Yemen as bombing death toll soars above 70 in last 48 hours
Witnesses and security officials confirmed children were also killed in the strike
Government troops advancing along Red Sea have been battling rebel Houthis
Their goal is to reach strategically-important Hodeida - Yemen's 2nd largest port
By ALEX GREEN FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 20:50, 26 December 2017 | UPDATED: 11:44, 27 December 2017
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5213657/Saudi-backed-market-ai rstrike-kills-25-Yemen.html

A Saudi-backed airstrike has struck a crowded market in Yemen killing at least 25 - as the death toll from bombings in the last 48 hours soars to more than 70.

Yemeni witnesses and security officials confirmed a number of children had also been killed in the attack and that Tuesday's strike in the western province of Taiz wounded at least 30 others.

Both witnesses and officials asked to remain anonymous because they had not been authorised to speak to media and their feared retribution.

International rights groups accused the coalition of bombing civilian gatherings, markets, hospitals and residential areas across Yemen since the beginning of its air campaign against Iran-backed rebels, known as Houthis, in March 2015.

Government troops and coalition forces have been advancing along the Red Sea coast, seizing the town of Khokha earlier this month.

The stated goal is to reach Hodeida, Yemen's second largest port and a key entry point for aid to the country.

The UN has warned the port faces 'the largest famine the world has seen for many decades'.

But the coalition has met strong resistance from the Shiite Huthis, who control the capital Sanaa and most of northern Yemen.

On Monday a deadly air raid in Sanaa hit the guard house at a memorial to Egyptian soldiers killed in Yemen in the 1960s, according to a witness who served as a first responder.

Yemeni witnesses and security officials confirmed a number of children had also been killed in the attack +5
Yemeni witnesses and security officials confirmed a number of children had also been killed in the attack

The guardian of the memorial Ali Mosleh al-Rimi and his wife were killed, along with his four daughters and another relative, Moussaed al-Himi said.

Himi, who helped evacuate the bodies, said two other family members were wounded.

Rebel media put the number of dead at 11.

'I saw everything with my own eyes,' Himi said, adding that multiple missiles had hit the house, which was left badly damaged.

“The US-Saudi aggression war jets committed new massacres against Yemeni people over the past few hours, leaving more than 120 martyrs and wounded in several provinces,” a military official told Saba on Wednesday.

According to Saba News, the Saudi Coalition targeted several areas in northern and western Yemen, striking towns inside the Ta’iz, Sa’ada, Sana’a, Hodeideh, and Hajjah governorates.

In particular, the Saudi Coalition has continuously targeted the Houthi-held Al-Ta’iziyah District in the Ta’iz Governorate, causing incredibly high casualties as a result of the ruthless airstrikes.

The Saudi Coalition contends that their warplanes are attacking the Houthi forces; however, their airstrikes have mostly killed civilians, while their air, land, and sea siege punishes millions of people.

“The US-Saudi aggression war jets committed new massacres against Yemeni people over the past few hours, leaving more than 120 martyrs and wounded in several provinces,” a military official told Saba on Wednesday.

According to Saba News, the Saudi Coalition targeted several areas in northern and western Yemen, striking towns inside the Ta’iz, Sa’ada, Sana’a, Hodeideh, and Hajjah governorates.

In particular, the Saudi Coalition has continuously targeted the Houthi-held Al-Ta’iziyah District in the Ta’iz Governorate, causing incredibly high casualties as a result of the ruthless airstrikes.

The Saudi Coalition contends that their warplanes are attacking the Houthi forces; however, their airstrikes have mostly killed civilians, while their air, land, and sea siege punishes millions of people.

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